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Governor Corbett’s proposed budget 2011/2012 includes a strategy to collapse several medical programs including sickle cell disease (SCD) in to one line item and to cut this line item by 45%. The result of such a cut will be devastating to this vulnerable population. It is estimated that more...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Thousands of families carry the gene that causes sickle cell disease and don't know it - even though almost every newborn today is tested for what's called "sickle cell trait," and starting this summer more college athletes are getting tested, too.

WASHINGTON — Thousands of families carry the gene that causes sickle cell disease and don't know it — even though almost every newborn today is tested for what's called "sickle cell trait," and starting this...

Thousands of families carry the gene that causes sickle cell disease and don't know it — even though almost every newborn today is tested for what's called "sickle cell trait," and starting this summer more college athletes are getting tested, too. Spurred in part by rare but tragic collapses of...

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